R.I.P. Ivan Passer

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I actually have a set of lobby cards for Cutter's Way when it was titled Cutter and Bone. Don't know if UA ever did a new batch with the title change and re-release.
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A friend of mine was instrumental in rescuing Cutter's Way from the trash heap of film history. The film had flopped as a UA release, then titled Cutter and Bone. The newly-formed UA Classics (spearheaded by my friend) took it over, retitled it and got critics to look at it anew. It still didn't make that much money, but, re-classified as an indie, it seemed a minor success. I always said it was the first movie turned from a flop to a hit via bookkeeping.

Passer never had the Hollywood success his compatriates like Forman did. His biggest foray into mainstream filmmaking -- Law and Disorder -- was an intermittently effective but way-too-depressing look at the working class. His Czech film Intimate Lighting probably remained his highest achievement.
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R.I.P. Ivan Passer

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Czech film director who fled Czechoslovakia in 1969 (with Milos Forman) and immigrated to the US. He was best known for Intimate Lighting, Silver Bears & Cutters Way:

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ivan ... 203462725/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Passer
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